Matthew Wynn Sivils
Biographic Data
| ID | 5649249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wynn Sivils |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Wynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Sivils |
| SIGNATURE | SIVILS M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Agrotopias
In her compelling and astute reconsideration of the development of early American agricultural thought, Abby L. Goode pays special attention to the ways that racist, nativist, eugenic, and expansionist rhetoric influenced the evolution of the concept of sustainability across America's long nineteenth century and beyond. The book begins with a helpful roadmap to demonstrate how the texts explored in Agrotopias challenge accepted views of how Thoma…
That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle”
Charles Brockden Brown published his series of thirteen experimental prose sketches, collectively titled “The Man at Home,” in 1798. At that time, Philadelphia, where the sketches are set, had suffered a decade of almost annual yellow fever epidemics. Among other aspects of life during these epidemics, “The Man at Home” explores the horror associated with contagion and quarantine. Drawing corollaries between Brown’s text and the xenophobia and re…
Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)
Cet article examine la manière dont Laura , court roman de Leonora Sansay publié en 1809, associe le thème de la recherche du bonheur fondateur de la Jeune République au rêve, plein d’espérance mais voué à l’échec, de bonheur conjugal au sein d’un paradis pastoral. Sansay, dans ce roman peu étudié, se sert des conventions du roman de séduction et du paysage pastoral des environs de Philadelphie pour interroger la validité des frontières sociales …
Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In its broadest sense, the ecogothic is a literary mode at the intersection of environmental writing and the gothic, and it typically presupposes some kind of ecocritical lens. Indeed, in the only book devoted to the topic, Andrew Smith and William Hughes define ecogothic as “exploring gothic through ecocriticism,” demonstrating the virtual inextricability of the two concepts. Emergent in the 1990s, ecocriticism has devoted itself to studying the…
Gothic Landscapes of the South
Surveying the development of the Southern Gothic landscape, Sivils locates its origins in seventeenth-century captivity narratives by figures such as Garcilaso de la Vega and Captain John Smith. He then traces the cultural evolution of the Southern Gothic landscape through a selection of texts by Henry Clay Lewis, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and others. Referencing critics such as María del Pilar Blanco and Yi-Fu Tuan—an…
Dissecting the Pamphlet Literature of the Boston Smallpox Inoculation Controversy
In April of 1721, a number of ships from the West Indies docked in Boston Harbor. One of these vessels, the HMS Seahorse, hailing from Salt Tortuga, delivered a shipment of cargo to the colony. It also brought smallpox. Despite efforts to quarantine the infected, by the end of May, eight people had contracted the deadly virus, and with the specter of an epidemic looming over the city, the citizens of Boston looked to two different sources for med…
Clear-Cutting Eden
Book Review| March 01 2010 Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature; Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 Matthew Wynn Sivils Matthew Wynn Sivils Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 214–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
Song of the Oktahutche
A Note on the Editing of these Texts IntroductionPoems: 1891 1892 Circa 1893 Undated Poems Written Between October 1891 and the Summer of 1894 1894 1895 1896 Four Undated Poems Written Between December 1895 and December 1897 1897 Undated Poems Written Between Late December 1897 and October 1898 1898 Poems From an Undated Ledger Compiled Between Late 1898 and Early 1899 Undated Poems Written Between the Fall of 1899 and June 1900 1899 1900 A Poem …
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In its broadest sense, the ecogothic is a literary mode at the intersection of environmental writing and the gothic, and it typically presupposes some kind of ecocritical lens. Indeed, in the only book devoted to the topic, Andrew Smith and William Hughes define ecogothic as “exploring gothic through ecocriticism,” demonstrating the virtual inextricability of the two concepts. Emergent in the 1990s, ecocriticism has devoted itself to studying the…
Song of the Oktahutche
A Note on the Editing of these Texts IntroductionPoems: 1891 1892 Circa 1893 Undated Poems Written Between October 1891 and the Summer of 1894 1894 1895 1896 Four Undated Poems Written Between December 1895 and December 1897 1897 Undated Poems Written Between Late December 1897 and October 1898 1898 Poems From an Undated Ledger Compiled Between Late 1898 and Early 1899 Undated Poems Written Between the Fall of 1899 and June 1900 1899 1900 A Poem …
Clear-Cutting Eden
Book Review| March 01 2010 Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature; Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 Matthew Wynn Sivils Matthew Wynn Sivils Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 214–215. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
Dissecting the Pamphlet Literature of the Boston Smallpox Inoculation Controversy
In April of 1721, a number of ships from the West Indies docked in Boston Harbor. One of these vessels, the HMS Seahorse, hailing from Salt Tortuga, delivered a shipment of cargo to the colony. It also brought smallpox. Despite efforts to quarantine the infected, by the end of May, eight people had contracted the deadly virus, and with the specter of an epidemic looming over the city, the citizens of Boston looked to two different sources for med…
Gothic Landscapes of the South
Surveying the development of the Southern Gothic landscape, Sivils locates its origins in seventeenth-century captivity narratives by figures such as Garcilaso de la Vega and Captain John Smith. He then traces the cultural evolution of the Southern Gothic landscape through a selection of texts by Henry Clay Lewis, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and others. Referencing critics such as María del Pilar Blanco and Yi-Fu Tuan—an…
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
In its broadest sense, the ecogothic is a literary mode at the intersection of environmental writing and the gothic, and it typically presupposes some kind of ecocritical lens. Indeed, in the only book devoted to the topic, Andrew Smith and William Hughes define ecogothic as “exploring gothic through ecocriticism,” demonstrating the virtual inextricability of the two concepts. Emergent in the 1990s, ecocriticism has devoted itself to studying the…
Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)
Cet article examine la manière dont Laura , court roman de Leonora Sansay publié en 1809, associe le thème de la recherche du bonheur fondateur de la Jeune République au rêve, plein d’espérance mais voué à l’échec, de bonheur conjugal au sein d’un paradis pastoral. Sansay, dans ce roman peu étudié, se sert des conventions du roman de séduction et du paysage pastoral des environs de Philadelphie pour interroger la validité des frontières sociales …
Transcorporeality and the Pursuit of Happiness in Leonora Sansay’s Laura (1809)
That Noisome and Contagious Receptacle”
Charles Brockden Brown published his series of thirteen experimental prose sketches, collectively titled “The Man at Home,” in 1798. At that time, Philadelphia, where the sketches are set, had suffered a decade of almost annual yellow fever epidemics. Among other aspects of life during these epidemics, “The Man at Home” explores the horror associated with contagion and quarantine. Drawing corollaries between Brown’s text and the xenophobia and re…
Agrotopias
In her compelling and astute reconsideration of the development of early American agricultural thought, Abby L. Goode pays special attention to the ways that racist, nativist, eugenic, and expansionist rhetoric influenced the evolution of the concept of sustainability across America's long nineteenth century and beyond. The book begins with a helpful roadmap to demonstrate how the texts explored in Agrotopias challenge accepted views of how Thoma…
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